A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 7, 1977

The querulous-looking fellow crouching next to Anthropologist Richard
Leakey on our cover this week is Homo habilis, a 2-million-year-old
hominid who was one of the predecessors of Homo sapiens. His
reincarnation for the Science section story on the origins of man was
the inspiration of Art Director Walter Bernard and Photographer Carl
Fischer, who saw the story of man's roots as a pictorial as well as
anthropological challenge.

But the rebirth of Homo habilis was not easy. Fischer asked Hollywood
Makeup Artist Bob O'Bradovich, whose credits include work for
Beatlemania and the Hallmark...